LA SALLE’S LAST VOYAGE.
of which this is No.________
AT THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION, ST. LOUIS, 1904.
Joutel’s Journal of
La Salle’s Last Voyage
1684–7
WITH A FRONTISPIECE OF GUDEBROD’S STATUE OF LA SALLE AND THE MAP OF THE ORIGINAL FRENCH EDITION, PARIS 1713, IN FACSIMILE.
NEW EDITION WITH HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTION, ANNOTATIONS AND INDEX BY HENRY REED STILES, A. M., M. D.
TO WHICH IS ADDED A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE DISCOVERY OF THE MISSISSIPPI BY APPLETON P. C. GRIFFIN, OF THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.
JOSEPH McDONOUGH
1906
By JOSEPH McDONOUGH,
In the office of the Librarian of Congress, Washington.
v
JOHN GILMARY SHEA, LL. D.,
THE INDEFATIGABLE HISTORIAN
OF THE
MISSIONS, LITERATURE AND HISTORY
OF THE
ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH IN NORTH AMERICA,
AND A
MAN OF MODEST, PIOUS AND BLAMELESS LIFE
THIS,
THE FINAL VOLUME OF A SERIES PROJECTED
BY HIMSELF, OVER FORTY YEARS AGO,
IS
SINCERELY DEDICATED
BY
THE PUBLISHER AND EDITOR.
PUBLISHER’S NOTE.
This volume is the concluding one of a series projected by the late John Gilmary Shea, LL. D., on the “Discovery and Explorations of the Mississippi Valley.” The initial volume, issued in 1852, comprises the Narratives of Marquette, Allouez, Membré, Hennepin and Anastase Douay. The second, issued in 1861, contains those of Cavelier, St. Cosme, Le Seuer, Gravier and Guignas.
The present volume, giving Joutel’s Journal of La Salle’s third and last voyage, is reprinted from the first English translation of 1714, of the original French edition of 1713.
A facsimile reprint of the above English edition was issued (privately) by the Caxton